Kennedy, J. P. and McIlwaine, H. R., eds., _Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776_, Richmond: The Colonial Press, 1905-1915. 13 vols. Kingsbury, S. M., ed., _The Records of the Virginia Company of London_, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906 and 1933. 4 vols. Labaree, L. W., ed., _Royal Instructions to British Colonial Governors_, 1670-1776, New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1935. 2 vols. McIlwaine, H. R. and Hall, W. L., eds., _Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia_, Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1925. McIlwaine, H. R., ed., _Legislative Journals of the Council of Colonial_ _Virginia, 1680-1775_, Richmond: The Colonial Press, 1918-1919. 3 vols. ----, _Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676_, Richmond: The Colonial Press, 1924. Nugent, Nell M., ed., _Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants_, Richmond: The Dietz Printing Company, 1934. Only volume I published covering the period from 1623 to 1666. Excellent source for study of seventeenth-century land grants. Sainsbury, W. N. and others, eds., _Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies_, London, 1860-. III. INDEX AND PERIODICALS Swem, E. G., comp., _Virginia Historical Index_, Roanoke: Stone Printing Company, 1934-1936. 2 vols. Valuable guide to material found in Hening's _Statutes_, _Virginia Magazine of History and Biography_, _Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine_, _William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine_--first and second series, _Calendar of Virginia State Papers ... Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond_, _Virginia Historical Register and Literary Adviser_, and _Lower Norfolk County Virginia Antiquary_. IV. SECONDARY SOURCES--BOOKS Ames, Susie M., _Studies of the Virginia Eastern Shore in the Seventeenth Century_, Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1940. Andrews, C, M., _The Colonial Period of American History_, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934-1938. 4 vols. Beverley, Robert, _The History of Virginia in Four Parts_. Reprinted from the author's second revised edition, 1722. Richmond, 1855. Brown, Alexander, _The First Republic in America_, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898. Bruce, P. A., _The Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century_, New York: Macmillan and Company, 1896. 2 vols. ----, _Institutional History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century_, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910. 2 vols. ----, _Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Origin of the Higher Planting Class, together with an Account of the Habits, Customs, and Diversions of the People_, Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1907.